Again, nobody said it was easy. It’s just factually easier to do since the inception of streaming. The numbers back that up.

Yes, I understand that a lot of the Diamond songs were not released in the streaming era, but the point is that they would have never gone Diamond if streaming didn’t become a thing. They crossed that 10 Million threshold with the help of streaming. But it’s also true that there are a lot of streaming-era songs going Diamond relatively quickly in comparison to how hard it was pre-streaming. Examples include:

Old Town Road - ten months
God’s Plan - 1 year
Closer - 2 years
rockstar - 2 years
Shape of You - 2 years
Sunflower - 2 years
Perfect - 2 years
Congratulations - 3 years
The Hills - 4 years
See You Again - 4 years

I can keep going, but pre-streaming it was extremely unlikely for that many songs to be going Diamond that quickly. There have been more songs released since 2015 that have went Diamond than there are total songs that went Diamond from 1999-2015.

And regarding the albums, it’s not like prior to streaming albums were going Diamond literally left and right. There are only 92 Diamond certified albums ever. The only reason albums like Scorpion and Views haven’t gone Diamond yet is because people aren’t mass buying individual copies of albums anymore because of streaming, but they definitely will be Diamond soon.

This s*** is so fake, how she doing 1.5 on a re release lol these numbers are cooked

Albums released after 2010 closest to Diamond certification

Teenage Dream - 9x Plat
1989 - 9x Plat
Recovery - 8x Plat
Take Care - 8x Plat
Views - 8x Plat
Frozen - 8x Plat
Doo-Wops & Hooligans - 7x Plat
Red - 7x Plat
Scorpion - 7x Plat
Night Visions - 7x Plat
Dangerous - 6x Plat
Unorthodox Jukebox - 6x Plat
Christmas (Michael Bublé) - 6x Plat
Beauty Behind The Madness - 6x Plat
Nothing Was The Same - 6x Plat
Purpose - 6x Plat
ANTI - 6x Plat
Speak Now - 6x Plat
This One’s For You - 6x Plat

Physicals
Her fanbase is wild

1989 has already over 10 million sales, it's just not updated.

Somethings cooked

I know but it’s not enough for this

Why she wasn’t moving this for a few years until she figured out a way to fit with the new system better? She was doing underwhelming numbers for a few albums until Midnights

Prez back wtf

Howling

shes has not really done any underwhelming units though, 'Folklore' did 850k+ first week and is the 5th or so best selling album worldwide this decade, and 4th or so album projected to become diamond this decade.

the other projects are: evermore, which did 300k but was released like 3 months immediately after Folklore, and a re-recording

and then there is also red TV which also did 650K or so which is still one of the highest in this decade

Taylor has every outlet working for her, white pop artist, rabid fanbase, hitting every bundle and vinyl edition, cd edition etc + streaming

She’s been releasing vinyl variants one at a time and for a limited amount of time so her fans feel pressured to buy one (most likely two or more because then one they preferred more is revealed after they already bought one).

Think she’s also doing like 4 different cassettes?

Plus her popularity is at an all-time high with dating Travis Kelce + her Eras Tour film + the nostalgia of 1989.

What bundles?

Wasn't midnights bundled with singles and stuff

No I think Folklore was her last album to have bundles before they got rid of them

Midnights had 1 box set exclusive for Capital One members

1989 just physicals

Stuff like this fam

A standard version and Target exclusive CD is pretty common, only odd one is the last one which was only available at 2 shows.

Other two are only on digital

Those are CDs not bundles tho lmao

Breaking news they tried to kill me but the boy prevails

That’s why she’s the goat

Guy called CDs... bundles

Drake what have you done!

1989 is 12 Times Platinum. It's undercertified.

Taylor's other 2010's albums are undercertified as well.

Midnights and Folklore are already past 5 times Platinum as well though I'm sure Morgan Wallen might beat her in getting a Diamond plaque this decade.

before long, they'll say album sales are gimmicky tactics all along. streaming is how albums are supposed to be counted, like the all of the decades before streaming was even a thing

Most of them are outdated, but officially that's their certifications currently.

Dangerous already surpassed 7M...

thing is T-swift hasnt have her riaa updated sinsce switching label in 2019 or so